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Journalism without a moral position is impossible. Every journalist is a moralist. It's absolutely unavoidable. — Marguerite Duras

As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The worse one sins, the more of a moralist one becomes. — Caleb Crain

The corrupt, when found out, become especially good moralists. — Robert Payne

To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock. — Emma Goldman

A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist. — Will Durant

Let God be good," cried Erasmus the moralist. "Let God be God," replied Luther the theologian. Although — Timothy George

Certainty is not to be had. But as we learn this we become not more moral but more resigned. We become nihilists. — Allen Wheelis

The worst mockery God can make of a moralist is that He compels him to be a
solipsist. — Kedar Joshi

Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit. — Isabel Paterson

Cynics are all moralists, and merciless too. — Indro Montanelli

Any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. — Sue Grafton

Rough Johnson, the great moralist. — Lord Byron

The moralist must praise heroism and condemn cruelty; but the moralist does not explain events. — Georges Lefebvre

The desperate addict is closer to the heart of grace than the devout moralist. — Tullian Tchividjian

Don't make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I'm not. — Madeleine Albright

Is literature better, is politics better, for having discarded the moralist and the philosopher? — G.K. Chesterton

Boredom is therefore a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. — Bertrand Russell

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist then Pleasure. — George Gordon Byron

If I am against the condition of the world, it is not because I am a moralist - it is because I want to laugh more. — Henry Miller

When you invite a middle-aged moralist to address you, I suppose I must conclude that you have a taste for middle-aged moralizing. — C.S. Lewis

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist. — Timothy Leary

The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level. — Theodore Roosevelt

Conscience is a great moralist inside us with a stick in its hand. It is a whip of virtue which oppresses us unmercifully when we do wrong. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance. — Frederick Soddy

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them. — F Scott Fitzgerald

A Scotchman must be a very sturdy moralist who does not love Scotland better than truth. — Samuel Johnson

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. — Hans Morgenthau

Self-righteousness is always self-condemnatory. And self-righteousness is the preserve of the moralist. — Timothy Keller